COSPAR Publication News

Calls for Papers for Advances in Space Research

Special Issues

• Science and Applied Research with Small Satellites: deadline 31 October 2023

• Progress in Cosmic Ray Astrophysics: deadline 31 October 2023

• Information Theory and Machine Learning for Geospace Research: deadline 31 December 2023

• Advances in Artificial Neural Networks for Solar Radiation Forecasting: Incorporating Solar X-rays, Particle Events, and Radio Emissions: deadline 15 January 2024

• Lunar Environment Effects resulting from Human Exploration and Occupation of the Moon: deadline 30 January 2024

• International Reference Ionosphere – Improved Real-Time Ionospheric Predictions with Data from Spaceborne Sensors and GNSS: deadline 31 March 2024

Advances in Space Research

• Space and Geophysical Observations and Recent Results Related to the African Continent, Vol. 73, Number 3, edited by Andrew Akala and Chigomezyo Ngwira

• New Results from DORIS for Science and Society, Vol. 72, Number 1, edited by D. Dettmering and E.J.O. Schrama.

• Recent Advances in Space Research in Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals, Vol. 71, Number 7, edited by Bülent Bayram

• Recent Progress in the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere, Vol. 71, Number 4, edited by Istvan Ballai and Eduard P. Kontar

• Astrophysical Spectroscopy and Atomic Data Applications, Vol. 71, Number 2, edited by Milan S. Dimitrijević and Vladimir A. Srećković

More information on published issues, including tables of contents, available on the Elsevier ScienceDirect site.

ASR Looking for New Editors

The COSPAR journal Advances in Space Research is looking for new associate editors, in particular for Small Bodies of the Solar System and Remote Sensing. Aims and scope of this journal can be found at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/advances-in-space-research/about/aims-andscope. Applications including CVs or questions can be sent at any time to the Editor-in-Chief

Pascal Willis (pascal.willis.17@gmail.com)

ASR New Impact Factor

[Pascal Willis, ASR Editor-In-Chief]

The new journal Impact Factors (IF 2022) have been delivered by Clarivate (ISI Web of Science). Advances in Space Research remains at its highest level ever (2.6). The Impact Factor is derived once per year by Clarivate, usually around the end of June. It corresponds to the ratio between the number of citations observed in 2022 in all scientific journals for papers published in the two previous years 2020 and 2021 in this specific journal. It then provides an indication on how many citations published papers in a specific journal receive. It is a standard indication of the scientific quality of the peer-reviewed journals. The Figure below demonstrates the constant improvements observed in the ASR IF in the past few years. Please note that, in 2012, the ASR Impact Factor (1.183) was less than half of the most recent value. Also note that Clarivate now provides only one decimal for their Impact factors, which could potentially explain the almost equal value for last two years in this Figure.

Clarivate also classifies journals in different scientific categories. This is important when comparing scientific journals in competition for publishing the best papers. In 2002, Advances in Space Research improved in terms of journal ranking in all categories, compared to other peer-reviewed journals in the same category compared to previous year: Engineering, Aerospace (8th/34), Astronomy & Astrophysics (34th/65), Geosciences, Multidisciplinary (105th/201), Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences (64th/94).

The figure below shows the evolution of the journal ranking for the past three years. The goal of each scientific journal is to be in the first quartile (in the first 25% of the best journal belonging to the same category in terms of Impact Factor). This is successfully done for Engineering, Aerospace, while Q2 is recently obtained for Astronomy & Astrophysics. Please also note that this journal almost barely reached the Q2 quartile this time (better than half of all journals in this category) for Geosciences, Multidisciplinary.

This may explain why the number of submissions to this journal keeps growing, from about 1,000-1,200 per year to over 1,00 last year and probably even more this year.

Submissions are welcome at any time and can be done using the journal submission Web site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aisr